Is Life Like Disney World?

Having just returned from a great vacation in Orlando seeing three of Disney's four worlds, I reflected on the "reality" of Disney. It was the same question I poised to the family as we had our devotional time Sunday morning.

We concluded that the Disney experience was great and carefully staged to be that way. In a lot of ways, life is full of wonderful experiences and fairy tale endings. But also the reality that life has many unexpected turn, trials, disasters and rarely has a clean ending within a thirty minute time frame.

So back to real life with all its joys and trials. Although we cannot earn our salvation, the life of a believer takes tremendous initiative and effort. So enters the "Golden Triangle," an understanding of God's role, our role and how it all works together to make us more into His likeness.

The combination of Holy Spirit (the source of transformation), ordinary life events and our practice of Spiritual Disciplines as we stayed centered in the mind of Christ is God's means by which our very heart is changed.